Wedding Favours

I am having mini bottles of whiskey/vodka/brandy/gin/baileys with personalised wedding labels on

I am having Green & Blacks chocolate favours with gold ribbon.

A fabulous friend of mine is making porclain roses for me

OH and I are currently arguing about this! I would love to give everyone a charity pin badge (i want to choose different charities to suit different people, cat lovers cats protection etc) but OH hates the idea, and says i shouldn't be giving to charity on other peoples behalf. He likes the idea of lottery tickets, which i am not really fussed about. I have thought of compromising and giving everyone an organza bag with a pin badge, lottery ticket and a chocolate? What's everyone's opinion on this? I just hate the idea of wasting lots of money on just chocolate that no one will really appreciate (and maybe not eat!) Would much rather the money went to a good cause.

We're getting our favour boxes from 'with love from alle'. they're the alle range and we're going to put 5 silver coloured almonds in each one. (our colours are black, white and silver)

We are having stick of rock from a really great place - they have been fab!!!

Any colours and numerous flavours!!!

I'm having wine glass charms and doubling them up as favours.

Here's our thread about our favours, traditional organza bags with non traditional contents.

https://www.hitched.co.uk/chat/forums/p/247569/2386015.aspx#2386015

I'm struggling with this too. We don't want chocolates, those cake pops or the traditional almonds.

We got a keyring bottle opener at one wedding and use it all the time so are looking for something useful rather than something to eat but am probably verging on a miniature for the fellas and a candle for the ladies and some sweets for the kids.

We're having homemade toffee apples for a November wedding

Me too

Am making them myself and luckily no-one so far has a name that is too long for the charm!!

Im making my own...well im ordering wooden butterfly shapes from ebay and painting then..they will then be attached to a luggage tag with a stamp of the wedding date on.....x

I didn't bother. I thought about making lavender hearts for the ladies but couldn't think of anything for the men and didn't want to do one without the other. Also I've been to loads of weddings and can only remmeber the favours at one, so i figured they were that important! I did make little origami boats though which I put sweets in to go on the tables. My three newphews ate most of them I think!

We have some large pebbles that I've handpainted names on for the reserved seats during the ceremony and "Stephanie" took me 3 attempts to get to fit...

We have little organza bags with a wine charm a sample size perfume/aftershave will have a 2012 penny and for the ladies a sample of bodyshop body butter, men will have some body shop energize serum plus a little elizabeth shaw choc and a thank you scroll from me and other half tied with ribbon x

We're going for cheap and cheerful. organza bags filled with M&Ms!

I racked my brain for ages on this looking at charity badges and items that were more personalised to us but I couldn't think of anything so have just gone down the simple route!

We're making our own elderflower gin, and have bought tiny little bottles from hobbycraft to put it in. Then we're going to put a 'wish' sticker on every one.

We're having flower seeds and a decorated with a butterfly and will probably put tablet in to cover our butterfly/scottish theme, the boxes will also double as place cards

We're probably having little organza bags filled with Haribo hearts and rings - my OH proposed with a Haribo ring and then handed me a heart saying "and I give you my heart" so they have a bit of meaning for us and we were thinking about referring to them in the speeches just so people know why we chose them.

Wow some lovely stuff there and some fab ideas!! I'm really liking the pillow boxes but have no idea how to jazz them up. I have bought a butterfly cutter which I have used for my invitations but not really sure what else to add. I have had a sample sent out today and tried it with the buttefly but what else could I add?? xx

Get the glue and diamantes out! How about a wavy line of diamontes coming from underneath the butterfly?

We had little butterfly cookies with a name card, wedding date and a thank you note to each guest- you can just about see them on the table...

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So beautiful, we could see the details so perfect!

I was told so many things, I am doing two favors. One for the wedding and reception. We are giving out bubbles during the wedding ceremony and kisses in organza bags at the reception and have them on the table.I have the another choice of drinks bottle labled with the wedding welcome and couples name .this is my wedding favor experience.

We are not planning to have any favours, the main reason because we are not having a formal sit down, more of a free for all sit where you like or roam around, the second to save a little money! We may if I have time, make Homemade Cookies and decorate, and pack in bags, then just leave them in a basket somewhere with a sign, 'Help Yourself'.

Soul mates I think your right.....The bling is going to have to come back out ha. Might add some ribbon and see how I get on. Im rubbish at doing bows though[: (] xx